This transient was discovered during the citizen science project Supernova Hunters run by the Zooniverse. The candidate was identified by volunteers including 'MichalBiesiada', 'Dolorous_Edd' and 'chrostek'.

Close inspection of the spectrum reveals it to most likely be a Type-Ic around maximum light. Comparison of the spectrum with a library of template spectra using SNID (Blondin and Tonry 2007) reveals decent mataches with SN 2004aw around maximum light.